Culture Quote by Roger Scruton

“So we ask ourselves: Why are things the way they are? What practices should be questioned and which should remain sound? This allows us…

— Ryan Holiday

“Traditions are like rules, they are meant to be broken.”

— A.E. Croft

“Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes…

— Donald Kingsbury

“Rules are usually in place because they help the people who made them, more than the people who have to follow them. Same goes…

— S.E. Jakes

“As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.”

— Steve Krug

“Traditions are seldom lies; traditions reflect people’s deepest beliefs and customs. They have their own truth,”

— Anne Rice

“When tradition thus becomes master, it does so in such a way that what it transmits is made so inaccessible, proximally and for the…

— Martin Heidegger

“Rules only matter if everyone understands them, agrees to them, and can be trusted not to break them. Bearing these irrefutable facts in mind,…

— Seanan McGuire

“Traditions are just nonsense that binds, and whilst the nonsense might take on a different hue, the binding is universal.”

— Vinay Patel

“The times, they are a-changing! What was once defined by tradition, respect, and custom has evolved into a relaxed and casual society. What is…

— Susan C. Young

“In actual fact, conventions are the death of real tradition as they are of all real life. They are parasites which attach themselves to…

— Thomas Merton

“Answers come after questions, not before. Answers answer questions in specific and pointed ways, not in sweeping generalizations.”

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield